Gas flaring, Kachikwu noted that government
Commenting on Gas flaring,
Kachikwu noted that
webapex.net government planned to stop gas flaring under the gas
commercialization project by the year 2020 – 10 years ahead of the United
Nation’s deadline.
“We are going to bring
in private companies into the facilities to trap the gas being flared, convert
them, and use them both for power generation and other purposes.
“And that programme has
been ongoing and we have more than 7,000 applications and we need to zero in on
those with the en
westernmagazine.org gineering, financial and even technical capacity to extract
the products.
“Once we do that, we can
exit 100 per cent from gas flaring by 2020, and that is a project the Federal
Government has invested so much energy on,” he stated.
The minister lauded the
military for the projects, saying their commitment to securing the project was
in line wi
ysin.orgth the 7Bigwins of the government.
He added that if
properly managed, the project could create jobs and help to maintain clean
environment, among other things.
Kachikwu, therefore,
urged other stakeholders to emulate the military to help boost domestic use of
LPG in the country. (NAN)
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